Do You Qualify? Understanding Workers’ Comp Can Impact Your Return to Health

Do You Qualify? Understanding Workers’ Comp Can Impact Your Return to Health Ensuring quality healthcare is a team effort. Doctors must strive to provide top-of-the-line care once a patient is in their care. Likewise, when deciding which medical professional to reach out to for occupational medicine services, patients need to be educated about what benefits and health insurance they have access to through their work.

Prior to an injury or illness, an employee needs to inform themselves about their benefits. While friends and family members provide a valuable support system during hard times, it is important for employees not to rely on anecdotes for information on how workers’ compensation can assist them. Situations vary widely between states and companies.

Location plays a significant role in workers’ compensation coverage. Workers’ compensation laws do very greatly between states. In Texas, it is not mandatory for employers to provide occupational injury insurance, except in a select handful of industries. Government construction contracts, for instance, have mandatory insurance requirements.

Similarly, even when a business does provide workers’ comp, some “workers” may not be eligible. Independent contractors, such as freelance writers or computer consultants, are not employees of the company their assist and therefore do not qualify for workers’ comp.

Volunteers often do not receive benefits; however, there are some exceptions, like volunteer fire fighters.

If you are injured at your workplace, reporting the incident immediately is incredibly important.

Do not wait to experience a later, worsening pain. Rather, inform your supervisor at the time of the injury and complete a workers’ compensation form. A delay in reporting can create serious problems if and when you need occupational medicine. Delaying a report also hampers with your employer’s ability to investigate and solve any workplace safety concerns.

Gonzaba Medical Group offers occupational medicine services to safely, quickly return injured employees to the workplace. San Antonio patients who qualify for workers’ comp can reach out to Medical Group doctors for information about their Workplace Injury services by calling 210921-3821 or emailing info@gonzaba.com.